FWIW, I always enjoyed Clarkson on Top Gear.
Posted on 08/08/2021 2:10:55 PM PDT by Rummyfan
To hilarious effect, Jeremy Clarkson battles failing crops and his own cluelessness on Clarkson’s Farm.....
Clarkson’s Farm is a brilliant eight-episode reality series on Amazon Prime whose central figure does a spectacular job making himself look absurd. Jeremy Clarkson — a national treasure in Britain, still little known in the U.S. — is a soft-bellied, PC-hating, extremely wealthy 58-year-old fellow who made squillions hosting Top Gear, then was fired for punching a producer, then launched a knockoff show called The Grand Tour. He is also beloved for the curmudgeonly humor columns he writes for the British Sunday papers.
Clarkson’s farm is a thousand-acre spread in the Cotswolds in southern England. One day its owner (or more likely, a canny TV producer) decided that he, himself, would actually try to farm the farm, guessing that this would be highly amusing to watch. He guessed right. Cue the theme from Green Acres. Then slowly fade in the screaming chaos of “Gimme Shelter.”
Jolly and bluff and unerringly confident in his ability to manage situations about which he knows absolutely nothing, Jeremy obligingly steps into the time-honored role of the clueless metropolitan — the city slicker/sucker — who ventures out into the land of the rubes and finds that, in important ways, they’re the clever ones and he is utterly useless.
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FWIW, I always enjoyed Clarkson on Top Gear.
I will wait for this to be on Youtube.
I can’t stand Top Gear but I watched this because my son asked me to.
I actually enjoyed it and hope there’s a second season.
Meanwhile his former colleague on TG, James May is on YouTube doing things like making Gin and 70s British Cuisine (Potato Crisp Sandwiches?)
Enjoyable, I recommend it. The show portrays real farmers in a very positive light, IMHO.
Top Gear was fabulous when it had Clarkson, Hammond and May after that it stunk.
My favorite episode was when they made their own ambulances. Just thinking about makes me laugh.
Found some of it....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxV2-ln_BCs
My husband really wants me to watch this show. I tried the first ep but British humor is a bit sedate for me. Though Monty Python and Mr. Bean are good.
Plus I cannot understand their accents!
Best program in years. Clarkson shows up with a Lamborghini tractor, but Ceb steals the show. Very glad there will be a second season.
Has this NRO “journalist” been living under a rock? Almost everyone I know knows Clarkson. “still little known in the U.S. “
But we’re old so it doesn’t count.
I watched and liked Clarkson’s Farm. It cast a very sympathetic light on the tribulations of being a farmer. It shows a definite development of deep respect on the part of Clarkson for farmers. I was sad to see him truck the sheep off to be slaughtered, though. I don’t eat red meat of any sort.
But I have never eaten sheep. Smell alone makes me cringe.
I've eaten rattle snake, but again the odor makes me not look forward to the next time.
But I am a carnivore.
The Hi-Lux and snow-combine are two of mine.
Cynical review doesn’t do it justice. It is terrific! Completely enjoyable and illuminating about British farming regulations. Growing vegetables regulated down to the square foot.
It’s on Amazon Prime.
Never saw Top Gear but Clarkson's Farm is the best thing on TV for ages. It is hilariously funny and evokes sympathy for farmers who have to deal with the twin nightmares of the weather and crazy government bureaucracy.
We just recently started watching and there is a lot to enjoy.
The storyline and characters are enjoyable.
Some of the photography is gorgeous; birds, sunsets, landscape...
The development of Clarkson from a motorhead to a farmer.
With a clear anti-bureaucracy point of view.
Looking forward to the next season.
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